Subj : Kerosene Engines
To   : Charles Radley
From : mark lewis
Date : Sun Aug 13 2000 07:40 am

 CR>>> 10 years behind.   The ISS (International Space Station)
 CR>>> I think uses  486  architecture.

 VA>> I think 486 architecture isn't a good idea. 486 processor
 VA>> itself is rather monstrous & not very effective, with
 VA>> very high power consumption... Not for spacecrafts...

 ml>> you're thinking of how they were in the past... these chips are still
 ml>> being made today but now may also be found in a CMOS manufacture
 ml>> format that uses very little power...

 CR>     Right.  486 is what is being used on the US portion of
 CR>     the International Space Station.

cool! along this same line, i saw, the other day, in one of my LINUX magazines, 
where a company had a pentium 'system' that's completely embedded... it comes 
with LINUX or RTOS as the OS... you only need to add connection support for 
external devices (floppy, hard drive, ram, etc...) to put it to use... the 
thing that /totally floored/ me was that it draws <500mw of power!

i'll see if i can find the ad if anyone's interested in more details ;-)

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